Why don't we bomb the hell out of areas that terrorists are located? What is wrong with my logic?

Question

I think instead of having american troops dying in the thousands, why don't we bomb everywhere that terrorists are located? Regardless of loss of innocent life? Are our soldiers not innocent life, they are dying. What is wrong with my logic? Is it too much to ask that we go back to having an atomic bomb type situation?

Answer 1

Nothing wrong with your logic. I fact, we cannot win a war in a defensive position. We must carry the war to the enemy's neighborhoods as he brought it to ours.

But international opinion and internal dissent will prevent it. So we can only hope that not too many innocent lives will be lost here.

Answer 2

Hmmm.

Let's start logically.

Soldiers are never 'innocent life' in that they are armed and trained to kill. This makes them combatants, and in any country where they were not invited, it can reasonably be assumed that they are enemy combatants. According to international law and long-term custom, it is okay for people to fight to get them out of their country.

For example, if the Chinese Army decided to send a million or so of their troops to the US to collect some of the billions of dollars we owe them, would you want to take that lying down? I don't think so.

As for dropping bombs on everyone in the hope that you would hit the terrorists, it doesn't work. Israel has been dropping thousands of bombs on all their neighbors--they decided that the people who lived there when they came in 1948 were somehow 'terrorists'--yet their problems never seem to go away.

Plus that, it gets harder and harder to know where all the 'terrorists' might be. For example, Timothy McVeigh, who did the Oklahoma City bombing, was certainly a terrorist, but it makes no sense to bomb Midland, Michigan in hopes of avoiding any repeats of that senseless act. Bombing places where terrorists might be in other countries makes as much sense as that.

To say NOTHING of the international anger that would be generated! The whole world would converge on the US as if we were Nazi Germany, and there would be nowhere to go to avoid getting bombed by SOMEBODY.

I think the best thing to do about terrorism is to work through diplomatic and trade channels. This has not been tried, and might be more successful.

Answer 3

I think we'd actually like to, especially in Northern Pakistan, but we've been holding off so we don't upset the delicate balancing act that the Pakistani PM has had to endure ever since he took over from extremists during his coup to power.

That whole India-Pakistan-Kashmir-Afghanistan area is a raging all-out war (with nuclear potential) just waiting to happen, and we don't want to be the ones to trigger it.

The Red Mosque event is of particular interest, though, because that could change everything. If the Pakistani PM and his government are ever overthrown, you can pretty much count on intense bombing in North Pakistan happening within hours of that. Or, if any other major terrorist attack happens on American soil, we'll consider that a trigger too.

(Unfortunately, with no honest support for the military from Democrats in congress, that's what it's going to take.)

Answer 4

so do we bomb our inner cities because drugs and crime are high in that area? will that make you feel safer?
how about we stay out of OTHER PEOPLE'S countries and work on our own?
or is the UN useless and in need of being disbanded?
when did the US conquer the rest of the world? did I miss WWIII?
what is wrong with your logic is obvious.
why not start shooting all speeders instead of issuing tickets?
why not start chopping off the hands of theives?
why not burn unfaithful spouses?
did you miss the part of OUR history that says life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is available to all AMERICANS?
did I miss the part where we annexed another country?
Did you miss WACO or Oklahoma city?
what COUNTRY declared war on the US?
what COUNTRY did we declare war on?
WHY?
here is a thought---you might even get this one--the US has democracy....(do you know what that is?) Iraq did not but is being forced into it by guess who...yep the US.
Democracy isn't for everyone--are you suprised?
Do you know how much and how often we interfere in the middle east without the public even knowing about it ?
Do you think the innocent bystanders that get slaughtered when we interfere understand? Or do they hold each of us responsible.....just like you hold them responsible?
Can you even see it from the other side?
Can you see that we are NOT blameless?

Answer 5

You already answered your own question... You're killing innocent people. Yes, the soldiers ARE innocent people, but they know what they are getting into when they enlist. Their goal is to risk their life to save another... the lives of those innocent people that you want to kill and the Americans as well. I'm sure this question stems from a loss of your own, and for that I'm very sorry. But you have to realize that the people who are dying shouldn't die in vain. So instead of getting angry and killing everyone, why don't you do something to show appreciation for those we've lost?

Answer 6

Because it would be an end to the USA as a political and economic force in the world.
No country would want to be associated with such an act of mass murder.
All American embassies would have to shut down and the USA would become an international pariah.
And if you think the USA could survive by itself, think again. The Chinese control your economy and have the power to destroy the value of the dollar.

Answer 7

Here's the flaws in your logic:
1. The 'terrorists' move around and have 'cells' all over the world. How would we know where to bomb?
2. By bombing the "hell" out of areas where terrorists are located would almost certainly kill hoards of innocent people, which is uncivilized and immoral.
3. If we behave just like the terrorists, we become the terrorists. The U.S.A. should hold itself to a higher level of humanity, a stronger standard of civility, and a more moral code of ethics.
4. We are already in one unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, unjustifiable war all for the sake of OIL and WAR PROFITEERING; why escalate the violence any further than we already have?
5. War begets more war. Hatred begets more hatred. Evil begets more evil. You cannot achieve peace through more war.
6. In addition to the obscene cost in human life, there is also a tremendous cost of 'war' that we taxpayers must eventually pay. Bombs, guns, ammunition, missiles, tanks, soldiers, military supplies, food, fuel, and transportation all cost money - lots and lots of money that this country is running short of as it piles up trillions of dollars in debt that someone, someday will have to pay off through higher taxes.
7. The only benefactors from war are those corporations who work within the giant U.S. military-industrial complex such as Halliburton (who, by the way, is contracted to build 14 permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, and who is also relocating its corporate headquarters offshore to avoid paying federal taxes on the billions in profits it has already earned from this repulsive war).
8. Killing more terrorists will never eliminate terrorists. In fact, it will only enrage people that much more, which will serve as a recruiting tool for more people to join the terrorists' organizations. Even if you wipe out AlQaeda, a new group of radicals will rise up to battle the world's bully, the United States of America.
9. It's amazing how many so-called 'Christian' Americans encourage war even though their Bible specifically orders, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" - I don't believe there's a disclaimer in there that says "unless you're the insane President of the United States who wants to satisfy his family personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein".
10. It's pretty easy to sit in front of your computer and ask, "Why don't we bomb the hell out of areas [where] terrorists are located.." when you're not the one that has to do the bombing, and you're not the one in harm's way. All war involves risk to the enemy and to our own troops. Why would you want to continue letting more U.S. soldiers die for a cause that will never be resolved with bullets? If you want peace, we need to be the first to lay down our guns and "love thine enemies" (again, paraphrasing from your American Christians' Bible). War is a worthless waste of human sacrifice, all so that a handful of people can get rich, achieve religious hierarchy, or accumulate power and influence. War is simply illogical. -RKO- 07/11/07

Answer 8

If we bombed everywhere the terrorist are located we would have to begin with the White House!

...although I agree our troops need to get out of there ASAP !Besides, this is no war it's an occupation!

Answer 9

bombing the areas where Terrorists r located will make d situation more worse, terrorists choose religious places for hiding themselves, if we bomb those areas it'll will hurt sentiments of thousand people around d world, also they use innocent people as a "scapegoat".We can't say that a soldiers r "innocent", they r fighting for d cause.

Answer 10

No soldiers are not innocent civilians. There is a distinct difference. Soldiers are armed civilians are not. The brave men and woman who serve for us signed up to protect our country volunteered to risk their lives , civilian's did not sign up for the risk. Also terrorists often are located in schools and religious sites. Surely, anyone with morals could not suggest that it is risk killing children.